BRETT, Cecil Ernest Wilford
| Service Number: | 1342 |
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| Enlisted: | 24 August 1914 |
| Last Rank: | Driver |
| Last Unit: | 2nd Field Artillery Brigade |
| Born: | Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, 18 October 1885 |
| Home Town: | Port Fairy, Moyne, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Died of disease, Austin Hospital, Victoria, Australia, 26 December 1919, aged 34 years |
| Cemetery: |
Brighton General Cemetery, Victoria Independent C 42. |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Port Fairy School Roll of Honor |
World War 1 Service
| 24 Aug 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Driver, 1342, 2nd Field Artillery Brigade | |
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| Date unknown: | Involvement Driver, 1342, 2nd Field Artillery Brigade , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '3' embarkation_place: '' embarkation_ship: HMAT Marere embarkation_ship_number: A21 public_note: '' | |
| Date unknown: | Embarked Driver, 1342, 2nd Field Artillery Brigade , HMAT Marere |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Cecil’s mother died in 1899 when he was 14 years of age and his father died five years later. He served at Gallipoli at the landing until evacuated to Egypt 30 June 1915. Suffering with pleurisy he was then taken to England from where he was sent home to Australia during May 1916. From his service file he spent the next three years in poor health and died of TB in the Austin Hospital, Melbourne on the 26 December 1916.
His younger brother, 610 Tpr. Leslie Neville Wilford Brett, 8th Light Horse Regiment AIF also had died, of pneumonia in Cairo, Egypt 19 May 1915.
Another brother Charles Walter Wilford Brett served with the 60th Battalion and returned to Australia during 1919.